What are some opposite words for revile?

Antonyms for revile
rɪˈvaɪlre·vile

This page is about all possible antonyms and opposite words for the term revile.

Wiktionary1.0 / 1 vote

  1. revileverb

    Synonyms:
    scold, reproach, vilify, vituperate

  2. revilenoun

    To attack (someone) with abusive language.

    The gracious Judge, without revile, replied. Milton.

    Synonyms:
    scold, reproach, vilify, vituperate

English Synonyms and Antonyms2.0 / 1 vote

  1. revile

    Abuse covers all unreasonable or improper use or treatment by word or act. A tenant does not abuse rented property by "reasonable wear," though that may damage the property and injure its sale; he may abuse it by needless defacement or neglect. It is possible to abuse a man without harming him, as when the criminal vituperates the judge; or to harm a man without abusing him, as when the witness tells the truth about the criminal. Defame, malign, rail at, revile, slander, vilify, and vituperate are used always in a bad sense. One may be justly reproached. To impose on or to victimize one is to injure him by abusing his confidence. To persecute one is to ill-treat him for opinion's sake, commonly for religious belief; to oppress is generally for political or pecuniary motives. "Thou shalt not oppress an hired servant that is poor and needy," Deut. xxiv, 14. Misemploy, misuse, and pervert are commonly applied to objects rather than to persons. A dissolute youth misemploys his time, misuses his money and opportunities, harms his associates, perverts his talents, wrongs his parents, ruins himself, abuses every good gift of God.

    Antonyms:
    applaud, benefit, care for, cherish, conserve, consider, eulogize, extol, favor, laud, panegyrize, praise, protect, regard, respect, shield, sustain, tend, uphold, vindicate

    Synonyms:
    abuse, aggrieve, damage, defame, defile, disparage, harm, ill-treat, ill-use, impose on, impose upon, injure, malign, maltreat, misemploy, misuse, molest, oppress, persecute, pervert, prostitute, rail at, ravish, reproach, ruin, slander, victimize, vilify, violate, vituperate, wrong

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms0.0 / 0 votes

  1. revile

    Antonyms:
    flatter, compliment, eulogize, panegyrize, laud, extol

    Synonyms:
    reproach, asperse, upbraid, malign, slander, calumniate, vilify, abuse, blaspheme

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Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  1. vilify, revile, vituperate, railverb

    spread negative information about

    "The Nazi propaganda vilified the Jews"

    Synonyms:
    fulminate, vilify, rail, train, vituperate, rail off, inveigh, rail in

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. revileverb

    Synonyms:
    vilify, traduce, asperse, reproach, malign, calumniate

How to use revile in a sentence?

  1. Henry Adams:

    As for America, it is the ideal fruit of all your youthful hopes and reforms. Everybody is fairly decent, respectable, domestic, bourgeois, middle-class, and tiresome. There is absolutely nothing to revile except that it's a bore.

  2. Ravi Ragbir:

    We are becoming regimes that we revile, they have reunited some, but they have not reunited all.

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Words popularity by usage frequency

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#1528consider
#1701respect
#1727benefit
#2157protect
#3876regard
#4855tend
#5455favor
#6486shield
#6760praise
#11256sustain
#17021compliment
#19974conserve
#22440uphold
#25495cherish
#27690applaud
#35995flatter
#70221laud
#79099extol
#80199vindicate
#148587revile
#323815eulogize

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